]]>0Noah Lyonhttp://retardriot.comhttp://retardriot.com/?p=22432016-12-03T18:45:00Z2016-10-15T18:36:39ZBurn Zone, is Danny Lyon’s newest published work. Burn Zone is a Cri de Coeur directed at the artist community and our youth asking them to join the fight to save planet Earth. In it, photographer and filmmaker Danny Lyon, tells the story of his return to New Mexico after thirty years and the dramatic changes caused there by the use of fossil fuels. Illustrated with new black and white photos and including a list of fifty climate criminals, prepared by the climate activist Josephine Ferorelli. Each listed member of government, or the academy, has received massive amounts of money from the fossil fuel industry, in order to lie, and undermine any affective democratic action to save the planet. These are serious criminals in our midst, on the level of those charged with genocide during the Nuremberg trials. One of them has been nominated for Vice President of the United States.

For Swiss In situ’s very first installation, independent Swiss publishing houses Nieves and Innen will bring their focus on artist-made zines to NY with a presentation of the hundreds of pocket-sized, image-based publications they have commissioned over the past 15 years. In light of the social and community-oriented nature of zine productions, Nieves and Innen have also invited a group of international collaborators and like-minded producers to exhibit their work as part of the library and to speak in workshops and artist talks about their publishing practices.

Founded in 2001 by publisher Benjamin Sommerhalder, Nieves is a publishing house based in Zürich that specializes in artist books and zines. Nieves publications have been exhibited at Kunsthalle Zürich, Kunstverein Hamburg, Art Metropole in Toronto, Printed Matter in New York, and Centre Culturel Suisse in Paris.

Innen is an independent publisher promoting Swiss and international contemporary artists, founded by graphic designer Aaron Fabian in 2006. In 2010 Innen launched Zug Magazine, a biannual collection of selected contemporary artworks.

You may purchase tickets for the Opening Preview here, which includes the Enamel Pin Fundraising Edition by Sigrid Calon (while supplies last!).

Free and open to the public, Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair is a unique event for artists’ books, art catalogs, monographs, periodicals, and zines presented by over 250 international presses, booksellers, antiquarians, artists, and independent publishers. Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair 2015 saw over 34,700 visitors over the course of three and a half days.

Printed Matter’s LA ART BOOK FAIR is the companion fair to Printed Matter’s NY ART BOOK FAIR, held every fall in New York. In September 2014, over 35,000 artists, book buyers, collectors, dealers, curators, independent publishers, and enthusiasts attended Printed Matter’s LA ART BOOK FAIR.

THE CLASSROOM makes its third trip to the west coast for LAABF16, after 7 years at NYABF. This curated series of conversations, workshops, readings and other artist-led programs is also an informal venue for artists, writers and publishers to feature new releases and present their publications, organized by David Senior of the Museum of Modern Art Library. Located in Gallery D.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11

7:00 pm
‘Heart of Darkness in the City of London’, by Fiona Banner
Fiona Banner introduces and screens her two short films Mistah Kurtz – He Not Dead (2014) and Phantom (2015) and discusses the related book, her new edition of Heart of Darkness co-published by her imprint The Vanity Press and Four Corners Books in 2015.

Printed Matter hosts a book signing with Banner immediately following the screening and discussion at booth C01.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12

1:00 – 2:00 pm
Hugh Steers: The Complete Paintings
For the West Coast Book Launch of Hugh Steers: The Complete Paintings, Visual AIDS hosts a discussion with close friends of Hugh Steers moderated by Visual AIDS Programs Manager Alex Fialho, highlighting the range of Steers’ work as well personal anecdotes from his rich life. Unique among painters, Steers consciously brought AIDS, intimacy, and the body into the traditional vocabulary of painting. The new publication features over 600 full-color images of Steers’ paintings and is the first monograph focused on the career of American figurative painter Hugh Steers (1962-1995), whose life was cut short by AIDS at the age of 32. Presented by Visual Aids and Dancing Foxes Press.

2:00 – 3:00 pmOn Fire, by Jonathan Griffin
Artists’ studios have been burning down for centuries. In On Fire, Los Angeles-based author Jonathan Griffin asked ten contemporary artists how they recovered after their studios went up in flames. In the process, he gained surprising insights into their working methods, their relationship to their chosen profession, and their reasons for making art. This event features a reading by the author, an interview with a special guest, and conversation with the audience. Presented by Paper Monument.

3:00 – 4:00 pmHans Ulrich Obrist Hear Us, by Bill Burns
This program will include a brief reading from Bill Burns’ new memoir about longing, brown-nosing and the economy of art, Hans Ulrich Obrist Hear Us. The reading will be followed by a conversation between Mr. Burns and curator and writer Tyler Stallings. The conversation will speculate on toadyism and hagiography with particular reference to the artist, the curator, the collector, and the art museum. Published by YYZ BOOKS and presented by Art Metropole.

4:00 – 5:00 pmAuto Body Collision, by Shannon Ebner
Artist Shannon Ebner joins curators Alex Klein and Tina Kulkielski and designer and writer Mark Owens to discuss her most recent publication, Auto Body Collision (Carnegie Museum of Art, Hillman Photography Initiative, 2015). Designed in close collaboration with the artist, the book includes more than 150 never-before-published photographs, as well as critical essays on related themes, from the typographic and the photographic to the circulatory and the network, as well as poetry and performance and their relationship to the collision of bodies and technologies, in terms both literal and conceptual.

5:00 – 6:00 pm
Sarah Rara reading Earth Breakup
Sarah Rara will deliver a performative reading of poems from her new book Earth Breakup, published by Hesse Press, layering voice and recordings that playfully re-synthesize and combine fragments culled from the text. Rara’s first collection of poems, Earth Breakup, is a vivid meditation on natural resources, human-built environments, and possible planetary outcomes, articulating present and future concern for continued existence. Presented by Hesse Press.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13

11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Chinese Art and Indie Culture on Paper with Song Min & Yan You (Jiazazhi Press), Lai Fei & Zhao Mengsha (LEAP Magazine), with curator Samantha Culp
In parallel with the global renaissance in indie publishing, China has seen its own rise of art publications as a vital site of production and discourse. Ranging from critical magazines to indie imprints, artist’s books to zines and comics, it’s a small but eclectic scene that reveals much about the current creative landscape of China, and the diverse contexts of art publishing worldwide. With guests from photography publisher Jiazazhi Press and China’s first bilingual art magazine LEAP, curator Samantha Culp will lead a conversation about this print ecosystem, its key voices and themes, and current evolution in the face of challenges digital and otherwise.

12:00 – 1:00 pmElephant Child by Camille Henrot
Camille Henrot presents her new book, Elephant Child (Inventory Press and Koenig Books, 2016). Originated during an Artist Research Fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution, which laid the groundwork for Henrot’s 2013 video Grosse Fatigue and the subsequent installation The Pale Fox (2014–15), Elephant Child represents the culmination of a long-term inquiry into the human effort to make the universe comprehensible. The book contains an original text by Henrot written with Clara Meister and Michael Connor, documentation, sketches, and research materials in a vivid, prismatic image of the realm of thought. Presented by Inventory Press.

1:00 – 2:00 pmImperial Courts 1993-2015, by Dana Lixenberg
In 1992, Dana Lixenberg travelled to South Central Los Angeles for a magazine story on the riots that erupted following the verdict in the Rodney King trial. What she encountered there inspired her to revisit the area, and led her to the community of the Imperial Courts housing project in Watts. Returning countless times over the following twenty-two years, Lixenberg gradually created a collaborative portrait of the changing face of this community with her 4×5 field camera. Over the years, some in the community were killed, while others disappeared or went to jail, and others, once children in early photographs, grew up and had children of their own. Imperial Courts constitutes a complex and evocative record of the passage of time in an underserved community. Lixenberg presents sound and video recordings that document responses from the community in regards to the work and publication; as well as some scenes from her three-channel video installation currently on view at Huis Marseille in Amsterdam. Presented by Roma Publications and Idea Books.

2:00 – 3:00 pm
FER YOUz : The L.A. Hardcore Archive, 1980-1985
Brian Tucker and Nikki Tucker, a.k.a. FER YOUz revisit the remarkable origins of their legendary Los Angeles hardcore punk culture research archives in Arnold Rubin’s African art history seminar at UCLA, where Nikki Tucker attended graduate school. Marla C. Berns, Director of UCLA’s Fowler Museum will shed light on Rubin’s influential field research in Nigeria and his interests in alternative cultural practices in postwar America, which provided important models for the Tuckers’ multi-faceted documentation of the Reagan-era hardcore scene in Southern California. Notable members of the L.A. underground music world have been invited to join the panel and share their memories of the Tuckers’ extraordinary impact on the scene, particularly via the publication their early 1980s broadsheet photozine, FER YOUz. Presented by Arthur Fournier.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13 (cont’d)

3:00 – 4:00 pm
The Art of Movement Building: Black Lives Matter
#BlackLivesMatter was created in 2012 after Trayvon Martin’s murderer, George Zimmerman, was acquitted for his crime, and dead 17-year old Trayvon was post-humously placed on trial for his own murder. Rooted in the experiences of Black people in this country who actively resist our de-humanization, #BlackLivesMatter is a call to action and a response to the virulent anti-Black racism that permeates our society. The art of movement building will discuss the use of art and graphics in the Black Lives Matter movement. www.blacklivesmatter.com

4:00 – 5:00 pmPhotography is Magic, by Charlotte Cotton in conversation with John Houck, Phil Chang and Carter Mull
Artists Phil Chang, John Houck, Owen Kydd and Carter Mull join curator Charlotte Cotton in a discussion about contemporary photographic practices. Prompted by Cotton’s recent survey publication Photography is Magic, this discussion centers on the book’s proposal that we are in the midst of an artist-led moment in the story of photography-as-contemporary-art, and an especially open and hybridized field of practice. Presented by Aperture.

5:00 – 6:00 pmDark Pool Party, by Hannah Black
Join Berlin-based artist Hannah Black for a discussion and reading of her new book Dark Pool Party. Black’s work reassembles pop music and autobiographical fragments to think about the relationship between bodies, labor, and affect. Drawing on feminist, communist, and black radical theory, she explores supermarkets, ambivalence, hot babes, departures, history, and violence with characteristic wit and precision. Presented by Dominica and Arcadia Missa.

6:00 – 7:00 pmIMPROVISING SCULPTURE AS DELAYED FICTIONS: a performative reading by Felicia Atkinson for microphone , video projector and cassette player (2omn)
IMPROVISING SCULPTURE AS DELAYED FICTIONS is a statement disguised in a poetic novel, everybody is a foreigner, camping on some perishable and transitory spaces. The fiction allows the inner voices to become images and the drawings, paintings and sculptures shift slightly into speaking characters. Loops, distortions of the reality, imaginary meanings are playing together.The to-be-performed book becomes a proper and new territory as well as a visual score where art forms stand up and speak for themselves, where genres are shifting in a joyous revolution. Presented by Shelter Press.

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14

11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Art Hearts Poetry, with Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal and Dena Yago
Join Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal, Dena Yago and guests in a discussion about contemporary art’s fraught relationship to poetry. Prompted by Rosenthal’s recent essay for X-tra Contemporary Art Quarterly, “Let’s Take A Very Fucking Poetry Lesson: Art’s Crush on Poetry,” this discussion will center on the motley role poetry plays in contemporary art: as advertising copy for press releases, as a mirror for art’s failures, as a parallel artistic practice, or even as a (fetishized?) escape. There may even be artists reading poetry.

12:00 – 1:00 pm
The Dynamic Library: Organizing Knowledge at the Sitterwerk- Precedents and Possibilities.
At the Sitterwerk in St. Gallen, Switzerland, an unusual system that relies on RFID technology was developed to turn an idiosyncratic collection of art books into a publicly accessible library. What are some of the collections that presenters have created and/or manage, how do they organize them, and how do they make them accessible? This event will explore the challenges and pleasures they’ve encountered, as well as the role played by digital technology. Presented by Soberscove Press.

1:00 – 2:00 pmAn Interview with Myself, by Nicola Tyson
To complement her newest artist book, Nicola Tyson: Works on Paper, the artist will perform “Nicola Tyson in conversation with Nicola Tyson.” Similar in tone and spirit to Nicola’s 2013 publication Dead Letter Men (Sadie Coles, HQ & Petzel), Nicola’s interview with herself is a humorous not-to-be-missed examination of the artist’s influences, the renewed interest in feminism (“feminism lite”), the difference between frock and fuck. A Q & A and book signing will follow the performance. Presented by Petzel Publications.

2:00 – 3:00 pm
Can Zines Predict & Change the Future? with Ewa Wojciak, NO Magazine (Yes Press) &
V. Vale, Search & Destroy (RE/Search)
The historical publications NO Magazine (Los Angeles) and Search & Destroy (San Francisco) join in conversation. These 1970’s groundbreaking zines questioned and pushed the limits of popular culture as they encouraged readers to do something other than just consume. Publishing was not guided by sales and distribution. Alternative aesthetics and final content were often generated by play or chance. Risking finances to publish against impossible odds: Why did they do it? Why do they do it now?

3:00 – 4:00 pmMaMA Cubicle, by Zanna Gilbert
“This past summer, New York’s Museum of Modern Art hosted a series of exhibitions aimed at a select audience. The shows weren’t listed on MoMA’s website, and the vast majority of museum visitors and employees were unaware of the programming. The curator, Zanna Gilbert, limited the audience for her presentations to a specific group nursing mothers on MoMA’s payroll. Located on the sixth floor of the museum’s office building, the venue was a modest 36 square-foot room, a former utility closet that the museum has repurposed and set aside for lactating mothers to use while pumping breast milk. Titled ‘MaMA Cubicle,’ the series wasn’t part of Gilbert’s official responsibilities….Instead, it was an exercise in rogue curating…” (Allison Weisberg, “Productive Space,” Art in America, November 2015.) In celebration of the MaMA Cubicle publication, Gilbert will talk about the project and introduce Miniature Garden’s manual for installing art exhibitions in lactation rooms everywhere. The manual includes a ready-to-hang exhibition, essays by contributors and a publication detailing the shows. Presented by Miniature Garden.

4:00 – 5:00 pmThe Magic Circle, Jan Tumlir in Conversation with Kevin Hanley
Tumlir’s new book charts a pathway of historical analysis and speculative association outward from The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” a record released in 1967 once the band had definitively renounced touring. This limit-condition is crucial to the emergence of the concept album, and more generally of art-rock. “The Magic Circle” concerns the passage of the album form into a self-reflexive aesthetic work, but one that remains an openly commercial product and never severs its ties to the social facts. On the occasion of this book release, Tumlir will be joined by artist and pop-connoisseur Kevin Hanley to discuss the legacy of The Beatles brass band avatars as a segue between the cultures of industrialism and the information age. Presented by Onomatopee.

5:00 – 6:00 pmSpiralogues, by Travis Diehl
How does one reach the Spiral Jetty? Vehicles, cattle guards, vehicle problems, maps and directions, finding and not-finding, the surrounding landscape. On the occasion of the reprinting of his essay Spiralogues on Golden Spike Press, Travis Diehl surveys the tropes of the travelogues that form a tradition of Jetty pilgrimage. The talk investigates what it is about this artwork that prompts not only travel, but literary accounts of this travel, examining versions of journeys by artists James Benning and Tacita Dean; Artforum’s Philip Leider and Nico Israel; as well as Robert Smithson himself. The presentation concludes with a selection from Spiralogues, incorporating an account of Diehl’s own trip to the site in 2008. Presented by Golden Spike.

SPECIAL PROGRAMMING in the Theatre (Gallery V)
at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12

Admission is free for all sessions, but space is limited.
General admission is first-come-first-seated.

5:00 – 6:00 pm
Billy Miller in conversation with William E. Jones
Printed Matter and S.T.H. Editions host a discussion-presentation with William E. Jones on the subject of cult writer Boyd McDonald, and Jones’ recent reissue of McDonald’s CRUISING THE MOVIES and upcoming McDonald biography – with artist-writer William E. Jones and Straight To Hell chapbook editor Billy Miller.

CABC – CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS’ BOOK CONFERENCE:

A dynamic, two-day program focused on emerging practices and debates within art-book culture. The Conference is organized by the CABC Committee, a national group of art library professionals. Events will take place in the Theatre (Gallery V), located in the rear of the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA’s Building 4.

This year’s conference features a keynote address by Experimental Jetset: the small, independent, Amsterdam-based graphic design studio, founded in 1997 by (and still consisting of) Marieke Stolk, Erwin Brinkers and Danny van den Dungen. Focusing on printed matter and site-specific installations, EJS will discuss their practice of “turning language into objects” and the influence of graphic design on artists’ books.

Admission is free for all sessions, but space is limited. General admission is first-come-first-seated.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13

11:30 am – 1:30 pm
Immaterials and Proposals
A collaborative reading of artworks that exist in description only. Presented by Project X and X-TRA, a group of artists and writers will select and present other artist’s written outlines, descriptions and proposals for art and exhibitions that are never intended to be or never will be realized in other forms. Followed by a panel discussion.

2:00 – 4:00 pm
Artists’ Books at 33 RPM
Artists have long incorporated the vinyl record into their respective practices; the medium is at once familiar, tangible, listenable, and easy to reproduce in multiple. This panel of contemporary artists, musicians, and publishers will discuss the history of the record in art and how the vinyl edition informs their work.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13(cont’d)

5:00 – 7:00 pm
Keynote Speaker: Experimental Jetset
Amsterdam-based graphic design studio Experimental Jetset will deliver this year’s keynote address. The work of EJS has been featured in group exhibitions such as Graphic Design: Now in Production (Walker Art Center, 2011) and Ecstatic Alphabets / Heaps of Language (MoMA, 2012); in 2007, a large selection of work by Experimental Jetset was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, for inclusion in the permanent collection. In 2013, the Whitney Museum of Modern Art launched a graphic identity developed by Experimental Jetset. Moderated by writer and designer Mark Owens.

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14

12:00 – 2:00 pm
Sexually Explicit Art and Artists’ Books
Books are a natural home for sexually explicit material, handheld and intimate, with room for the unexpected. A panel of artists and publishers will present their book and publication work dealing with sex and sexuality, followed by a discussion.

3:00 – 5:00 pm
Contemporary Art and the Occult
A panel of practicing contemporary artists discuss their work relating to alchemy, astrology, chaos magic, Gnosticism, shamanism, and occultism at large; manifested and documented in the printed form.

The LA Art Book Fair is pleased to host a variety of exhibitions at this year’s event.

Alden Projects™ presents The Bus Is Back: Mason Williams in Los Angeles, a special exhibition exploring the far-flung legacy of artist, musician, writer, producer, and screenwriter Mason Williams during his years in Los Angeles in the 1960s. Highlights include Bus (1967), the artist’s legendary but rarely seen icon of California Conceptualism: a 37 foot long screen print of a Greyhound bus, originally exhibited at the Pasadena Museum of Art in 1967 and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the following year. Accompanied by copious archival documentation, this exhibition also unpacks other off-the-beaten track vehicles by Mason Williams that were similarly destined for unconventional spaces, including billboards, advertisements, and an array of artist’s publications that were more numerous than the better known counterparts by his sometimes collaborator, sometimes roommate, and lifetime friend, Ed Ruscha. This exhibition is supported by Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Printed Matter, Inc., and Alden Projects™.

Arthur Fournier is proud to present FER YOUz : The L.A. Hardcore Archive, 1980-1985, a landmark survey of the hardcore punk youth culture explosion in Reagan-era Southern California, as viewed through the lens of Brian Tucker and Nikki Tucker’s precise and profoundly intimate documentation of the scene. Drawing on methodologies learned from art historian Arnold Rubin’s seminars on tribal art at UCLA, the Tuckers established a monumental collection of hardcore-era punk manuscripts, printed documents, artworks, sound recordings, textiles, and a massive Kodachrome slide archive featuring more 8000 unique images. For the first time ever, all sixteen color maquettes for the duo’s legendary underground photozine, FER YOUz, will be on display alongside a selection of objects, images, and texts drawn from their private collections. Made possible in part through a generous donation by Brett Gurewitz and family, the exhibition coincides with Fournier’s publication of a limited-release portfolio reproducing 100 of the Tuckers’ rare archival photographs, as well as a Classroom session with Marla C. Berns, Director of UCLA’s Fowler Museum, and special guests from the Los Angeles underground music community.

Onestar press and OSMOS will feature a curated project of books and editions with artists. The special project for LAABF16 is conceived within the framework of Richard Bell’s EMBASSY (2013 – 2016), a sculpture and platform reimagined to pay homage to the Aboriginal Tent Embassy protest first assembled by activists in 1972 on the lawn of Australia’s Parliament House, where it continues to this day.

EXHIBITOR PROJECT SPACES

303inprint releases Richard Prince‘s record Loud Song, a signed limited vinyl edition with folded poster and cover art by Kim Gordon. Sleeve Paintings by Richard Prince and original record cover art by Kim Gordon. “Loud Song was self-recorded in 1985 in Venice California. My band at the time, “Him,” played once in 1980 at Jenny Holzer’s loft at one of her “band parties.” By the time I had recorded “Loud Song” in 1985 I had reduced the members of Him to one. By 1986 I reduced the only remaining member to no one.” – Richard Prince

Gagosian Gallery presents: Design Office — Kim Gordon in collaboration with Feeding Tube Records; “Living on the Edge of Obscurity.” Feeding Tube Records, which once moved off the main drag in Florence, Massachusetts due to too many people knowing its location, is iconic in its resistance to the status quo—it is a petri dish for the inversion of pop culture pathology. In a celebration of the righteously avant-garde, Kim Gordon and Feeding Tube Records are sponging the essence of the seminal shop and wringing it out over the Gagosian Gallery booth. In addition to a vinyl listening station, limited edition records, and print ephemera created specifically for the fair, the space will include top-shelf items curated from Feeding Tube’s own inventory by the most discerning ears and eyes.

David Zwirner Books will present Perfect World, a reprint of a rare book of drawings by Jason Rhoades produced exclusively for the LAABF, along with a series of new limited-edition posters by Jordan Wolfson. David Zwirner Books will also feature a wide range of books and monographs related to the David Zwirner exhibition program.

Harper’s Books will present new drawings by Harmony Korine.

From the Archive of Unknown Poetry and the gallery of Marc Selwyn Fine Art, comes a new edition of Allen Ruppersberg’s EL SEGUNDO RECORD CLUB! A selection of small treasures brought to new life from an archive of recorded American artifacts spanning multiple decades of the 20th Century. Another example of who remembers what.

Additional project rooms at this year’s LAABF will be presented by KARMA and Werkplaats Typografie.

XE(ROX) & PAPER + SCISSORS
A lively selection of international artists and zinesters that represent independent publishing at its most innovative and affordable, in the Geffen Contemporary building 4. A super-sized subsection of the LA Art Book Fair; (XE)ROX & PAPER + SCISSORS takes over the Geffen annex with more than 100 international artists, zinesters, and small presses, offering a survey of independent publishing at its most innovative and affordable.

All Day, X43
Frenemies 4: Escape from L.A- Artist Matthew Scott Gualco launches his screenprint poster RIP YOU in edition of 100. Because we all going to die someday.

12:00 pm, E33
Signing with Jason Jaworski. Presented by SSK Press.

12:00 pm, P05
Signing of THE THING Quarterly issue and limited edition project with Ricky Swallow of issue and his limited edition project. Presented by THE THING Quarterly.

12:00 pm, T09
Signing with Experimental Jetset. Presented by Roma.

12:00 pm, X26Just The Hits 2 Release and signing by Joe Goblyn and the Mighty Shippo. Presented by Applesauce Industries.

1:00 pm, C01
Signing and launch of Jason Polan’s new book Every Person in New York. Jason will be personalizing each book sold and inserting a special bootleg zine titled People I like in LA, Taco Bell refreshments will be served. Presented by Printed Matter, Inc.

Release of Stroke Vol. 3 and screening of Hermit by David Bayus at Vacancy
Colpa presents an exhibition of new work by David Bayus at Vacancy (vacancyla.com). The world premiere of his new film Hermit, as well as the release of Stroke Vol. 3, will be held at the gallery on Saturday, February 13th from 8 to 10pm, located at 2524 1/2 James Wood Blvd.

Linguaviagem: A Poesia Concreta Dialogue at Actual Size Los Angeles
An exhibition highlighting printed matter and manuscripts of Brazilian Poesia Concreta beside European Concrete Poetry/ Konkrete Poesie. Including works by Augusto de Campos and the Noigandres group, Wlademir Dias-Pino and the poema processo group, Eugen Gomringer, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Ken Cox, Dom Sylvester Houedard and Jiri Valoch. This exhibition emphasizes the core role of the founders of Brazilian Poesia Concreta, re-examined within this international movement.

The exhibition held at Actual Size Los Angeles is co-curated by William Allen, a specialist in Concrete Poetry since 1988, and Ann Harezlak.